![]() ![]() ![]() It was that fascination, felt by FBI agent Clarice Starling (along with the reader) in The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, that fuelled those novels. There is danger here, as there is not in the case of superheroes and iconic spies, for if a character such as Lecter is explained as himself a victim of some original trauma, he is no longer fascinating as an avatar of absolute evil. Hannibal Rising promises to explain how a human being became Dr Lecter. Perhaps oppressed by imagery of a teeth-sucking Anthony Hopkins in Ridley Scott's squelchily horrible film of Hannibal - how do you top that climactic meal? - Thomas Harris, too, goes back to a clean slate, to beginnings. Reimagining the origin myth is a fine way to revive an ailing franchise, as Batman Begins and Casino Royale have shown. ![]()
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